Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] "pro" soundfile editors for linux
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: to helmi 10 2000 - 12:51:50 EST
>Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>> there is one rather substantial additional problem that audio editors
>> face if you want to do use an edit list during playback, and thats
>> sensible coordination of read-ahead/disk seeking with the edit list.
>
>Yeah, I think that's why Dominic isn't using the "piece list", which
>is seems not as attractive for audio as it does for text.
Although I'm in the early stages of brainstorming, I think its *more*
attractive, precisely because it is totally non-destructive.
The scheme I'm hatching right now isn't quite like Crowley's "piece
table", in that I don't use a single "add buffer". Instead, any pieces
(inserts, replacements) above a certain size go into their own
file. This doesn't solve the seek problem, but it reduces it a little,
since we don't end up seeking all over the single "add" file with lots
of little pieces in them. Positioning these "add" files on the disk
will be an interesting issue.
Early days yet, however.
--p
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